One of the best known battles of the American Revolution may have been in Lexington, Mass. But a historic house about 100 ...

The British Empire was the largest empire in history. At its height in 1922, it covered around a quarter of Earth's land ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so much of the world ...

Egypt’s 18th dynasty rose to the start of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1077 BCE) and was the zenith of Egyptian international ...

But rather than imposing mass deportations, Madison’s administration simply required British nationals living ... dismiss blueprints for using an 18th-century law, however dubious, and it ...

The English had struggled in the previous century over ... against the nature of British government. Rather they objected to their changing place within the British Empire. The revolutionary ...

The British Empire contained both good and evil. It was not essentially evil. It showed itself capable of learning from its mistakes and correcting itself. And from the end of the 18th century its ...

A book about 18th-century printmaking — and that of the early 19th century, something not quite captured in the title — might not strike you as timely. But as Chadwick points out, the British ...

The Truth About Empire: Real Stories ... she can manage is to point to an 18th-century African monarch abolishing the slave trade as evidence that the British do not deserve any plaudits for ...

Bagchi’s rich repository of the city’s documentation through the 18th and 19th ... didn’t have maps, but conducted detailed surveys to sustain the empire. Hence, texts like Abul Fazl’s Ain-i-Akbari ...